RMA added this flexibility starting with the 2021 crop year as part of a broader effort to encourage producers to use cover crops, an important conservation and good farming practice.

Transitioning from harvesting crops using a combine to only using cattle is not an easy task, says CJ Blew, a cattle rancher from Castleton, Kan. His family’s 24,000-acre cow-calf operation has improved cattle health and performance since switching 3,000 acres of irrigated dryland cropland to paddocks for grazing cover crops.

Cover crop grazing, pollinator planting, water infiltration and no-till economics are among the topics to be covered in two field days set for Oklahoma and Kansas next month.

A recent USDA Bulletin discussed updated rules for termination and reporting for cover crops that no-tillers may want to familiarize themselves with.

The Noble Foundation shares some considerations for making sure your herbicide choices don't clash with your cover crop goals.

With radishes and other covers in his rotation, Saltcoats, Saskatchewan’s Kevin Elmy is smothering weeds, fixing nutrients, building feedstock and reducing his fertilizer bills.